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Misc • 2020

Die Zukunft lässt sich nicht er-warten

By: Max, Lukas

Nicht gescheitert, aber falsch erzählt. Was Degrowth vom Demokratischen Sozialismus von Corbyn und Co. lernen kann.

Presentation • 2020

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of Covid-19

By: David Harvey

In this episode, Prof. Harvey talks about the factors and conditions that enables COVID-19 to become a pandemic and the ramifications for the economy and for social life.

Misc • 2020

Triumph der Ungerechtigkeit: Wie wir Steueroasen und Steuerdumping beenden können

By: Sven Giegold, Gabriel Zucman, Catherine Olier

Mitschnitt der 36. Ausgabe von Europe Calling, dem europäischen Online-Diskussionsformat von Sven Giegold MdEP. Thema war am 27.2.2020: "Triumph der Ungerechtigkeit: Wie wir Steueroasen und Steuerdumping beenden können” mit Star-Ökonom und Autor Gabriel Zucman und EU-Steuerexpertin Catherine Olier. Moderation von Sven Giegold MEP. Recording of the 36th session of Europe Calling, the European...

Scientific paper • 2020

Mapping Different Worlds of Eco-Welfare States

By: Katharina Zimmermann, Paolo Graziano

Attention towards topics such as environmental pollution, climate change, or biodiversity has strongly increased in the last years. The struggles to balance market powers and ecological sustainability somehow evoke memories of the early days of European welfare states, when social protection emerged as a means to prevent industrial capitalism from disruptive social tensions due to excessive...

Misc • 2020

Growth damages the climate. We need new paths to prosperity

By: Joël Foramitti

Technological pipe dreams and the fixation on perpetual growth have prevented effective climate policies for decades “Happiness does not pay pensions”, said the Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. The statement aimed to criticize the idea of a “post-growth” or “degrowth” society, which has received increasing attention in light

Misc • 2020

Organizing the 2020 Vienna degrowth conference before and during the covid-19 crisis

By: Nathan Barlow

Part 1: Before the crisis No one really told us what organizing a degrowth conference would entail. We simply knew we wanted to do it. Eighteen months of organizing, meeting, discussing and struggling have passed and now we’re less than seven weeks away from the first day of the conference.

Scientific paper • 2020

Fit for purpose? Clarifying the critical role of profit for sustainability

By: Jennifer B. Hinton

This conceptual article contributes to the post-growth strand of political ecology literature, which seeks to find sustainable ways of organizing the economy that do not require economic growth. It explores the idea that transitioning to post-growth societies requires a transition in the relationship-to-profit of business. I first conceptualize relationship-to-profit as the intersection of...

Misc • 2020

Is this the moment for a global 'degrowth' movement?

By: James Flexner

An archaeologist's perspective on degrowth.

Scientific paper • 2020

Intervention - Small and local are not only beautiful; they can be powerful

By: Vasilis Kostakis, Chris Giotitsas

Cosmolocalism emerges from technology initiatives that are small-scale and oriented towards addressing local problems, but simultaneously engage with globally asynchronous collaborative production through digital commoning. We thus connect such a discussion with two ongoing grassroots developments: first, a cosmolocal response to the coronavirus pandemic; and, second, an ongoing effort of...

Scientific paper • 2020

Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth

By: Giorgos Kallis, François Schneider, Iago Otero, Salvador Pueyo, Helmut Haberl, Christoph Plutzar, Katharine N. Farrell, Laura Kehoe, Peter Hobson, Jaime García‐Márquez, Beatriz Rodríguez‐Labajos, Jean‐Louis Martin, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Stefan Schindler, Jonas Nielsen, Teuta Skorin, Josef Settele, Franz Essl, Erik Gómez‐Baggethun, Lluís Brotons, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Guy Pe'er

Increasing evidence—synthesized in this paper—shows that economic growth contributes to biodiversity loss via greater resource consumption and higher emissions. Nonetheless, a review of international biodiversity and sustainability policies shows that the majority advocate economic growth. Since improvements in resource use efficiency have so far not allowed for absolute global reductions in...

Interview • 2020

Techno-socialism or de-growth?

By: Gareth Dale, Javier Moreno Zacares, Jack Copley

The second in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times.

Misc • 2020

Pandenomics: a story of life versus growth

By: Julia Steinberger

The clash between business-as-usual economics and the pandemic shows what we really need from our economy.

Art contribution • 2020

Decolonising Sleep: Or the reparative power of rest as a radical act to restore rhythmic cycles

By: Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

'The Dark Mountain Project' online series 'Becoming Human' explores the physical, psychological and experiential aspects of our current predicament and how we might realign our bodies and minds with the living systems. Uma Dinsmore-Tuli makes a case for the reclamation of sleep in an insomniac culture. Notes from a fractal encyclopædist on the interdependence of sleep and waking, delivered at...

Misc • 2020

Feminist degrowth reflections on COVID-19 and the politics of social reproduction

By: Feminisms, Degrowth Alliance (FaDA)

The crises provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed for all what many have long known: the foundations of the wealth and well-being of the world rest upon the sphere of social reproduction and the labor of care. This work is performed primarily by women and, more generally, by people whose work and lives are

Scientific paper • 2020

Transition within a transition: how cooperative platforms want to change the sharing economy

By: Giorgos Kallis, Joël Foramitti, Angelos Varvarousis

Scholars have argued that the sharing economy represents a transitional pathway to sustainability. The growth, however, of multi-national giants, such as Airbnb or Uber, has created new environmental, social, and economic problems and led many to question the dominant form of the sharing economy. In this paper, we study a transition within a transition—that is the emergence of a new niche of...

Misc • 2020

Academia in the time of Covid-19: Our chance to develop an ethics of care

By: Esteve Corbera, Isabelle Anguelovski, Jordi Honey-Rosés, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén

"In writing this opinion article we hope to encourage thinking about how academics may transform our work ethos now and in the future. This disruptive time can become an opportunity to foster a culture of care, refocus on what is most important, change expectations about the meaning of quality teaching and research, and in doing so make academic practice more respectful and sustainable."

Misc • 2020

Planning for Post-Corona: A Manifesto for the Netherlands

By: The degrowth.info international editorial team

Last month a group of academics working in the fields of development and environmental sciences in the Netherlands wrote a manifesto for post-corona recovery based on degrowth principles. This initiative gained widespread attention, pushing the degrowth agenda into (Dutch) mainstream consciousness and the traditional corridors of power.

Misc • 2020

More than 1,000 experts call for Degrowth as post-COVID-19 path

By: The open letter working group

New Roots for the Economy: academics, experts, artists, activists and organizations from around the world demand a farewell to our economy’s growth dependency to avoid further crises.

Misc • 2020

Manifesto for the Reorganisation of the City after COVID-19

By: Massimo Paolini.

The following text is a repost of an open letter to the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, setting out a manifesto for a reorganisation of the city in response to COVID-19. The manifesto currently has over 1600 signatures. Visit the manifesto website for more details and to add your signature: https://manifiesto.perspectivasanomalas.org

Misc • 2020

Degrowth Money

By: Julio Linares

The following text is an excerpt from “Towards an Ecology of Care: Basic Income Beyond the Nation-state (unpublished).